Please join The Office of Housing and Residential Life and Campus Ministry for Community Service Day, Saturday, September 21st from 8:45am-1:00pm.

Marist students, faculty, staff and alumni will be doing community service projects at various locations throughout the Hudson Valley. This event has been a great way to get off campus and give back to the Hudson Valley.

This year we hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to work together for the betterment of the Poughkeepsie community.

To sign up, please look for tabling outside the Dining Hall, in Donnelly Hall and at the underpass, September 16-20, or stop by The Office of Housing and Residential Life, Rotunda 387 or The Office of Campus Ministry, Byrne House.

The Marist College Center for Sports Communication will launch its live radio show on ESPN 1220, a 10,000 watt affiliate based in the Hudson Valley. The show, called “The Classroom,” is the station's first locally produced sports show and is the first such partnership in the country, where an academic center runs a show through an ESPN affiliate. We will produce the show from our very own radio studio in the Lowell Thomas building. Student interns for the Center work all aspects of producing the show, starting with research and show planning on Monday morning to taking a mic during the show through running the boards for the final credit on Saturday, making this an exciting learning laboratory for our students. With all their help, I’ll be hosting the program along with Marist athletics play-by-play host Geoff Brault.

While we certainly hope you tune in each week, we’re going to kick of the first show with a listening party. So, everyone is invited to the lower level of Lowell Thomas this Saturday to watch and hear this historic first show. The party starts at 9:45 a.m. before the 10 a.m. live broadcast, which goes until noon. We’ll have food, and since it’s our first go at this, there will be plenty of comedy, intentional and otherwise.